Honda Civic OEM Red - Super Mario Kart

Chances are, if you're reading Import Tuner, the thought of turning your car into The Ultimate Street Machine has crossed your mind once or twice. You may have even tried to live vicariously through video games that let you build your own supercar, winning races and collecting virtual ducats to fill your bucket. But, if you truly want the respect of your peers, you have to actually be driving your dream car on the streets, not piloting it from your mom's leather couch. Mario Crisantos of Anaheim, Calif., took this to heart and then brought it up to the next level of the game. When Super Mario said that he would build his own car, he actually built his own car-in his garage.

The actual steps that Mario used to build the car, from start to finish, are unknown. He may have started by taking the car to Body Pros for 3 coats of PPG Milano Red (that's a Honda OEM color, you know) before he got to work on his super kart. Maybe he ripped the whole interior apart and wired the custom stereo and alarm system and then just stared at the naked chassis for weeks at a time. Maybe he started by taking a toothbrush and some scouring powder and scrubbing at all the metal parts under the hood until they got nice and shiny. We don't know, and frankly, we don't care. What I want to know, and what you probably want to know is-what are the codes we need to enter to get this stuff done to our karts? Fear not, thumb warriors, we have listed the codes here.

Super Kart Interior Code: up, down, left, right, A, B, A, B. Enter this code at startup and watch your factory steering wheel change to a Momo Top Power tiller. The seats will change from the drab gray velour to the ultra-prestigious gray leather similar to those found in the Acura Integra. Carbon-fiber trim will adorn the interior at various strategic locations, while numerous AutoMeter gauges take residence in the custom leather-wrapped pod mounts. The analog instrument cluster converts to Clear Mode, while an Ignited start button will magically replace the OEM cruise control button (relocated elsewhere). Plug-and-play ports for the Sony Playstation 2 controllers will appear in the center armrest console. Just ahead of that, Alpine's 7829 CD Receiver and ERE-3180 Sound Processor will magically appear to control the multimedia frenzy caused by the dual Alpine television sets grafted into the dashboard. All cockpit sounds will be provided courtesy of Alpine's Titanium Cup Touring satellite speakers.

The Super Interior Code also gets you a custom fiberglass enclosure in the trunk that houses the 1-farad Lightning Caps capacitors, two 15-in. Rockford Fosgate boomers, and several Alpine V12 amplifiers. The custom red enclosure will highlight the CNC-machined and polished bracket that mounts the chromed-out Sony DVD player and the Vortex 10-in. LCD in the trunk space.